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Meditation: The 4 Primary Skills (4/4) alignments article meditation postural alignments taoist breathing taoist meditation taoist philosophy taoist principles Nov 11, 2026

By Paul Cavel

Part 1: Making Your Body Conscious

Part 2: Expanding Your Awareness

Part 3: Creating a Stream of Consciousness

 

Part 4: Entering Into Wu Wei

In Part 3, we established how presence, awareness and focus come together to create a stream of consciousness.

 

Posture and Breathing...

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Meditation: The 4 Primary Skills (3/4) article meditation neigong taoist meditation taoist philosophy taoist principles Nov 04, 2026

By Paul Cavel

Part 1: Making Your Body Conscious

Part 2: Expanding Your Awareness

 

Part 3: Creating a Stream of Consciousness

As established in Part 2, presence and awareness are prerequisites for letting go.

 

Directing Your Focus

Focus guides your presence and awareness to a particular ...

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Meditation: The 4 Primary Skills (1/4) article meditation taoism taoist breathing taoist meditation taoist philosophy taoist principles Oct 21, 2026

By Paul Cavel

 

Part 1 : Making the Body Conscious

Unlike other spiritual traditions, Taoism starts the process of awakening the mind by focusing on the body. Training protocols are embedded in neigong, that is internal techniques that clear out and upgrade all the systems and subsystems of the...

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How to Develop the Yin & Yang Qi of the Body in Tai Chi & Bagua (2/2) article bagua bagua zhang neigong tai chi tai chi practice yin and yang Sep 17, 2026

Part 2 of 2: Play the Yin-Yang Spectrum of Neigong

By Paul Cavel


In Part 1, we discussed how to weave relevant neigong threads into a single fabric through your tai chi or bagua practice, and establish your root in foundational neigong. Qi practices are arts of subtlety, requiring ever-finer ref
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How to Develop the Yin & Yang Qi of the Body in Tai Chi & Bagua (1/2) article bagua bagua zhang i ching neigong tai chi tai chi practice yin and yang Sep 10, 2026


Part 1 of 2: Find Your Root in Foundational Neigong

By Paul Cavel

In China the number eight is regarded as auspicious and it gets applied to just about everything, from feng shui and good luck charms to the ancient philosophy of the Tao. According to the I Ching (Book of Changes), eight primary ...

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Dissolve Trauma article chinese medicine dissolving emotions qigong trauma Aug 13, 2026


"People in the world suffer from traumatic events and these traumatic events aren't just a one-time change on their brain and body. It actually continues for, seemingly, their lifetime".
 
— Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD, Columbia University



Dr. Marlin's research is revealing how trauma experienced by...

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